Artist Tanaka Tatsuya has been using everyday objects – fruit, vegetables, stationary, toilet paper – he finds around his house to pair with figurines, turning them all into creative, dramatic and sometimes humorous scenes. He’s been doing this every day of the year , for the past 4 years, prompting him to title his project “Miniature Calendar.”

His photos are uploaded daily to social networking sites like Instagram and Facebook where you can follow along. He also has a photobook on Amazon Japan.

“7” | a scene at night using straws shaped like the number 7

Tanaka attributes his creativity to that same thought that we all have. “Broccoli and parsley might sometimes look like a forest, or the tree leaves floating on the surface of the water might sometimes look like little boats,” he says. “I wanted to take this way of thinking and express it through photographs, so I started to put together a MINIATURE CALENDAR.”